The Missouri Feral Hog Elimination Partnership continued efforts in 2025 that resulted in the removal of 6,125 feral hogs.
The total included 2,720 removed by aerial operations and 198 removed from the Arkansas border.
The Partnership also placed equipment in numerous counties for landowners to use free of charge, and Partnership pilots used new technology in aerial operations, incorporating a Forward-Looking Infrared helicopter to aid in finding feral hogs.
In 2025, the Partnership assisted 484 landowners and scouted for feral hogs on more than 3.5 million acres. Since 2016, there has been an 83% decrease in watershed occupancy by feral hogs in Missouri.
Feral hogs are one of the most destructive and dangerous invasive species in the United States, causing damage to agricultural crops and woodlands, native habitats and local ecosystems, and they act as vectors of disease that threaten commercial livestock operations. Feral hogs reproduce rapidly and have been expanding their range in Missouri.
For more information, call Kevin Crider at the University of Missouri Extension office in Salem at 573-301-5971. Information can also be found on the MU Extension website under “programs.”
Continuing the same efforts for 17 years expecting different results? The only thing that has changed is how much it costs the taxpayers! And alienated hunters who have controlled every species of animal in north America for 200 years some to the point of extinction now only the government knows how ! In what world does Killing more hogs than last year mean we have less hogs ?